About Us

Welcome to CSUSM’s Public Health website!

Emmanuel A. Iyiegbuniwe, PhD, MSPH, MBA
Director of Public Health
Master of Public Health (MPH) Program
College of Education, Health & Human Services
California State University San Marcos

Our commitment is to provide students a conducive learning environment improving their
knowledge base and skills to become effective practitioners in a challenging and ever-changing
public health domain. Students will be exposed to a comprehensive co-curricular experience
with opportunities for personal growth and exploration developing critical thinking,
problem-solving, and leadership skills. Our curriculum, in addition to core and concentration
courses, explores important topics such as health disparities, diversity, cultural
competence, and community based participatory research. Students will participate
in structured field trips, service learning, research, and community engagement projects
that will foster their intellectual curiosity and desire for lifelong learning.

It is our belief that research and service learning should inform public health practice
and that research, public health policy and service delivery should develop in a mutually
reinforcing fashion for the benefit of all stakeholders, especially our students.
We are committed and dedicated to building great communities and in solving critical
public health issues that will sustain our student's personal values, social, ethics,
and spiritual development as future leaders.

We encourage you to explore this website and invite you to consider CSUSM for your
public health training. Also, we welcome you to visit our offices with a view to getting
to know our faculty and staff members. I look forward to meeting and collaborating
with students as we strive to promote health and prevent diseases in diverse communities
in California and the world around us.